TURNIP RAIN: People threw turnips at a devil character Monday during annual Jarramplas Festival in the village of Piornal, Spain. Each year, people throw turnips at the Jarramplas devil as it makes his way through the streets beating his drum.

MESSAGE RECEIVED: European Space Agency members celebrated in Darmstadt, Germany, Monday, that the space probe Rosetta woke up after two years asleep to tweet: ‘Hello, world!.’ The decadelong quest to place a robotic lander on a comet reached a key milestone Monday when it sent a signal to Earth.

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MEET THE PRESIDENT: The mayor of Bangui, Catherine Samba-Panza, celebrated after being elected interim president of the Central African Republic Monday, in Bangui. She secured 75 votes against 53 for Desire Kolingba, the son of a former Central African president.

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INDIA DAY: Soldiers waited before the beginning of rehearsals for the Republic Day parade early in the morning in New Delhi, India, Monday. Indian Republic Day is celebrated every year on Jan. 26.

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SING ALONG: The men’s choir from the People’s Community Baptist Church in Silver Spring, Md., sang at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., Monday. The nation paused to remember Martin Luther King Jr. Monday with parades, marches and service projects.

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FROZEN: A pedestrian walked along the banks of the Neris river as temperatures dipped to-0,40 degrees Fahrenheit in Vilnius, Lithuania, Monday.

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UKRAINIAN UNREST: Protesters erected barricades, clashed with police in central Kiev Monday. Talks aimed at solving the political crisis in Ukraine foundered as the opposition refused to take part without President Viktor Yanukovych.

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PULLED OUT: A man was evacuated, in Butuan, in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, Monday. Floods and landslides caused by tropical depression Agaton killed at least 40 people. More than 500,000 people are displaced.

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MARKET BOMB: The uncles of Pakistani student Zoubair Latif, 17 years old, who was killed in a suicide bombing, mourned him in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Monday. A bomb ripped through a busy market Monday morning in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, killing at least nine people in the latest Pakistani Taliban attack targeting the country’s military.